Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14663, Solomon Dyer, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Dyer, Solomon Mary
N. 14663.
CONTENTS

76 88  384 40
10.127.  Massachusetts Solomon Dyer of Norfolk in the State of Mass who was h. Private in the Company commanded by Captain  of the  commanded by Colonel  in the  line for 20 (Twenty Days)
Inscribed on the Roll of  at the rate of 6 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of   1830 and sent to   Island Providence (R.I.)
Arrears to the 4th of  1830 $153.70 Semiannual allowance ending 2/28/31 " 38.44  $192.20
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. S. Blair Clerk, Book 3. Vol. 257 Page 16.

Ref?
4152 Massachusetts
Mary Dyer
widow of Solomon Dyer Mass who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 76 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of January 1844 and sent to Lemuel Humphrey Weymouth, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 4. Vol. 1. Page 40.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th July 1830. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" and of the Act of Congress of the 23 rd August 1842. entitled "An Act to amend the Acts of July 1830 and 1833. allowing pensions to certain widows"
State of Massachusetts County of Norfolk ss.
On the ninth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Norfolk Mary Dyer a resident of Weymouth in said County of Norfolk aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1830. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" and by the Act of Congress passed August 23 rd 1842. entitled "An Act to amend the Acts of July 1830 and 1833. allowing pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of Solomon Dyer late of Weymouth in said County deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and received a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. of $100.00 per annum which she had then heard him say was less than his due; that the whole of his service in the Army of the Revolution was several months more than two years. That according to the best of her knowledge and belief the service of the said Solomon Dyer as a soldier in the Revolutionary War was as follows to wit: That he served at Weymouth and at Hull in a Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Frost a term of about twenty one months commencing she thinks in April in the year 1775 and ending about the first of the year 1777.
Also that he served at Hull in the same Company immediately after the close of the last mentioned term three months while commanded by Capt. Joseph Root.
Also that he served in Capt. Frederick Wilder's Company nearly four months in the year 1777.
Also that he served in Capt. Samuel Ward's Company about two months in the year 1778.
Also that she thinks she has heard said Dyer say that he served three months in Capt. Nathaniel Belcher's Company in the year 1779. The most of the above mentioned service she thinks was performed in guarding the seaboard about Boston Harbor. A part of which she believes was in the State of New York.
The said Solomon Dyer resided in said Weymouth, when he entered upon each of the terms of service above mentioned.
She further declares that she was married to the said Solomon Dyer on the twelfth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine.

That her husband the aforesaid Solomon Dyer died on the twenty fourth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four. viz. at the time above stated.
Witness Benjamin Richards
Mary Dyer her mark
Sworn to & subscribed this day a year from above written Solomon Dyer Probate

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Levina Humphrey Weymouth Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk and Town of Weymouth
I Oran White Town Clerk of said Town hereby certify that the following is a true copy from the records of said Town of Weymouth, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures to wit:
There is a license of Marriage between Solomon Dyer and Mary Downing both of Weymouth. Dated Weymouth December the twelfth A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
The figures as recorded are "December 12 th A.D. 1779,"
Attest Oran White Town Clerk of said Weymouth
I Oran White above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of said Town of Weymouth, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception above named and certified by me. And I further certify that the Town books in my charge contain no record of the marriage of the said Solomon Dyer and Mary Downing.
Oran White Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts of said Weymouth Norfolk County ss. April 29 th 1848. Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for the County of Norfolk the above named Oran White and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence is true.
Isaac Humphrey justice of the peace

7102 Solomon Dyer
Peach
23 Mts & 2 days
AR
$76,88
E. J. Leland E

7102  BRIEF in the case of Solomon Dyer (County of Norfolk in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 3. How old is he? 75 4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.     Vol. In 1775 May 2 As a Private Gen. Moseley State troops, Capt. Joseph Dyer, Capt., Capt. Joseph Dyer. Lieut. Joseph Palmer   — — — 3 19 " Capt. Theophilus Welder   — — — 3 — " Capt. Samuel Ward.  
5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wymouth, Mass.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional, & documentary, & witness.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk.  Jan. 23. 1833.

Solomon Dyar
7102.
Edwin S Leland

I Thomas Dinnon of Weymouth in the county of Dorset aged seventy six years, testify and say that Solomon Beyer within named to my knowledge was in the United States service for the first period of time mentioned by him in the within statement
Thos Dinnon
Weymouth 1/2 August 14 th 1832 Submitted & sworn to before S. Leland Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Dorchester ss. On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Leicester in and for said County, Solomon Dyer a resident of Dymouth in said County, aged seventy five years , who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A. D. 1832
THAT he was born at Dymouth in said county on the twentieth day of September A. D. 17 57 , and that there is a record of his birth at the town records of Dymouth : that he was in the United States service from the ninth day of May A. D. 17 75 , to the ninth day of May A. D. 17 77 as a soldier in the Massachusetts State Forces : that he was residing at Dymouth aforesaid
when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Captain Joseph Dyer and Captain Joseph Dyer of the Committee of Safety : that he marched from Dymouth to Hull , from to from to : that he served at Dymouth Hull with none of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle and at the end of his service received no written discharge: that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Dymouth aforesaid
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the day of A. D. 17 , to the day of A. D. 17 , as a in the : that he was residing at
when he entered the service; that he and served for the period aforesaid under the command of : that he marched from to , from to from to : that he served at with of the regular troops; and regular officers were known to him: that he was in battle and at the end of his service received written discharge.
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the day of A. D. 17 , to the day of A. D. 17 , in the : that he was residing at when he entered the service; that he and served for the period aforesaid under the command of : that he marched from to , from to from to : that he served at with of the regular troops; and regular officers were known to him: that he was in battle and at the end of his service received written discharge.

Also that he was in the United States service in Capt. Stephen Wiltsie's company three months and nineteen days. And also in Capt. Samuel Dyer's company three months and fifteen days and that the history of the Commonwealth has been amended, and has no other documentary evidence.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
Solomon Dyer
We John B. Hales a clergyman, residing in the town of Plymouth aforesaid
and Samuel Humphrey residing in Plymouth
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Dyer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
John B. Hales
Samuel Humphrey
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed appli- cant was a revolutionary Solomon Dyer and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that John B. Hales , who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Plymouth ; and that Samuel Humphrey who has also signed the same is a resident in Plymouth and a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Thomas L. Lander
I Samuel Hemen , Regt. of the band of Plymouth aforesaid , do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Solomon Dyer for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Hemen

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File No. 14663
Mary Dyer Widow of Solomon Dyer Pris. Rev. War
Act: March 3 rd 48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 215
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7421 Massachusetts
Mary Alger widow of Solomon Alger -
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 - and who died on the 24. February 1833 - of Norfolk Co in the State of Mass : who was a private in the commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Colonel - in the Regt - line for 23 - 2 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 76 - Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th : - day of July 1843 and sent to Samuel Gimphy , Weymouth Mass
Whole amount due . . . . . $ 384.40
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by William _____ Clerk.
Book A Vol. 1 - Page 83 -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug. 6 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution , which remain in this Department, it appears that
the name of Solomon Dyer is borne on a roll of Capt. Joseph Trufant's Company in the State Service; and is therein stated to have served eight months from May
9. 1775.
Also on another roll of the same Company, in which he is stated to have served one month from Jan. 1. 1776 — and again for one month and fifteen days from April 8. 1776. —
Also on another roll of the same Company, in which he is stated to have served for two months and nine days from May 22. 1776 —
Also on another roll of the same Company, in which he is stated to have served for four months, viz. from Aug. 1. 1776 to Dec. 1. 1776.
Also on another roll of the same Company, in which he is stated to have served one month, viz. from Dec. 1. 1776 to Jan. 1. 1777.

Also on a roll of Capt. Theophilus Wildin's Company Col. Benjamin Gills Regiment; in which he is stated to have served, for three months and nineteen days from Aug. 24. 1777
Also on a roll of "Capt. Samuel Ward's Company in Lieut Col. Symms's detachment of guards doing duty in Boston & Dorchester" — and is therein stated to have served for one month and nineteen days from April 26. 1778.
Edward S. Damp Esq

We Joseph Pratt of Weymouth in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged fifty nine years and Mary Cushing of said Weymouth aged sixty two years do testify and say that we were well acquainted with Solomon Dyer late of Weymouth deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States, he died on the twenty fourth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine, we saw his remains on that day, and saw him interred two days after. Mary Dyer his widow is yet living and well known to us, she remains his widow, and is now in our presence in good health. The said Solomon Dyer was about eighty two years of age when he died, and the said Mary is now eighty five.
Joseph Pratt
Mary Cushing
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County ss. March 1 st 1843, Then personally appeared before me the Subscriber a justice of the peace within and for the County of Norfolk , the above named Joseph Pratt and Mary Cushing, and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by them subscribed in my presence is true, and qualify that the said Pratt and Mary Cushing are well known to me persons of good reputation for truth.
Samuel Humphrey, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Norfolk.
I Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the County of Norfolk for said County do hereby hereby certify that Lemuel Hovey is a Justice of the Peace within the said County of Norfolk - that Sherman Leland is Judge of said Court of Probate & that their several respective signatures in these papers are genuine therefor.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this eighteenth day of May A.D. 1843.
Jonathan H. Cobb Reg. Probate.

I Joshua Emery jun. of Weymouth in the county of Dorset and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Church in said Weymouth, and am well acquainted with Mary Dyer, widow of Solomon Dyer late of Weymouth aforesaid deceased, she is I think about eighty five years of age, and is a reputable and respected member of my Church, and I believe was her first communion with the same which was on an earlier date than that of any other member now living. Having been informed that no record of her marriage to said Dyer could be found I here say that I have not the least doubt of her lawful marriage to said Dyer. It is well known that they lived together reputably as husband and wife for more than fifty nine years, and now have four children living.
Joshua Emery Jr.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dorset County ss. March 10th 1843. Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace within and for the county aforesaid, the above named Joshua Emery jun. and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence is true, and I certify that the said Emery is well known to me to be a person of good reputation and a Christian minister.
Daniel Humphrey Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Burrell of Weymouth in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty two years, do hereby and say that I was well acquainted with Solomon Dyer late of said Weymouth deceased. Where age was about eighty two years, I knew him well from his boyhood to his death, he resided but a few rods distant from my residence for about fifty years. Mary Dyer his widow is also well known to me, they were persons of good moral character, and having been informed that no record can be found of their marriage. I hereby bear testimony that there cannot be the least doubt in the mind of any of their acquaintances in regard to their having been lawfully married, as I was not present I cannot testify directly to the fact, but I well recollect of hearing it mentioned about the time that they were married, as I believe, that they were married in a certain evening by Rev. William Smith at whose house Mary Downing, now the said Mary Dyer was then living, and they were after lived together and were considered as having been lawfully married, and as husband and wife, and had several children, four of whom are now living and three of them are respectable members of society.
Witness
Joseph Burrell
Sarah Ann Berry
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County ss. May 1 st 1848. Thompsonville

affirmed before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Norfolk, the within named Joseph Burrell, and made solemn oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed in my presence is true, and I certify that the said Joseph Burrell is well known to me as a person of good moral character, and of good reputation for truth.
Samuel Humphrey, Justice of the Peace

4156
Man, Dyer
$76:88 per an
Samuel Humphrey Weymouth Mass

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK ss.
Ezra W. Sampson
I, JAIRUS WARE , Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of Record, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby Certify that Samuel Humphrey Esquire,
is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine and true.
In Witness Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, this Eighteenth day of October A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty four three
Ezra W. Sampson Clerk

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838, and the amended act of 23d August, 1842.
State of Massachusetts } ss. County of Weymouth }
On this 22d day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the Sub-Committee on Pensions of the Massachusetts a resident of Weymouth in the County of Weymouth aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Deacon  John Dyer who died on the 10th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 37 at the age of 78 years.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Mary Dyer
19th March 1843 J. Dyer J. Dyer

We Lucy Hayden of Weymouth in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts age twelve one years and Stephen J Pratt of said Weymouth age seventeen years, do testify and say that we well know Mary Dyer of said Weymouth widow of Solomon Dyer late of said Weymouth deceased, she is now nearly eighty six years of age she is now in good health and in our presence The said Solomon Dyer, received a Pension for services in the Revolutionary War, and the said Mary Dyer his widow has of late received a Pension for five years for the same services. I yet remain the widow of said Solomon Dyer deceased
Lucy Hayden Stephen J Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County ss. September 29 th 1843. This is to certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in the office of the Clerk of the said Court at Boston the above named Lucy Hayden and Stephen J Pratt and made solemn oath that the same is true to the best of their knowledge and belief and that the said Lucy Hayden is the widow of the said Solomon Dyer deceased and that the said Solomon Dyer received a Pension for services in the Revolutionary War and that the said Mary Dyer his widow has of late received a Pension for five years for the same services.